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Dates Dictation
Type: Dates activity
Level: Intermediate Students
Teacher's notes: This activity allows you to teach and/or review the use of dates.
- Dictate the dates to the students.
- The students should write down the dates.
- Ensure that the dates have been taken down correctly by going over them with the students.
- Put the students into pairs and ask them to guess why the dates are important, ie what happend on those dates?
- At the end of the activity, give out the correct answers and ask the students who the most correct.
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July 14, 1789
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Outbreak of French Revolution |
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March 10 1876
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First telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. |
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September 1 1939
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Outbreak of the World War II |
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April 12 1961
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First man in space (Yuri Gargarin) |
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November 22 1963
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John F. Kennedy’s assassination |
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July 20 1969
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First man stepped on to the moon (Neil Armstrong) |
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December 8 1980
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John Lennon was shot. |
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June 13, 1990
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Berlin Wall collapses |
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August 31, 1997
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Death of Princess Diana |
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July 2, 2002
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The first solo balloonist to circumnavigate the globe. |
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